CLAS104 Lecture 15: CLAS104 – WEEK 8 LECTURES

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Part of being a hero was to go to the underworld and come back a heroic accomplishment. Given a git from persephone to have his wits about him even ater he was dead . Persephone is oten talked about as the one who runs the underworld, not hades . Odysseus"s men got drunk, including elpenor, and was sleeping on the roof of circe"s house and got up to relieve himself and he fell of the roof and broke his neck. But they were in a rush, and didn"t bury him. Elpenor is the 1st soul to come to odysseus asking him to go back and bury him. Elpenor also seemingly doesn"t have to drink the blood might be because he is in a diferent category than the other souls, perceived that he hasn"t fully entered into the land of the dead since he is unburied. Big thing he worried about was being remembered: anicleia (odysseus"s mother)